Best way to handle jquery conflicts caused by 3rd party plugins?

[munts]

In a previous discussion, I asked about issues trying to use the Events Calendar plugin. I believe I have figured out that the issue I am having is because jquery is getting loaded twice. Once from the theme's main.js and then again by the plugin.

I was wondering if anyone has found a good way to handle 3rd party plugins that load jquery? Ie. Should I write a function to deregister one if a condition exists? Perhaps I detect the template being used and deregister jquery on specific templates?

I see that things like the HeroSlider component require that jquery is loaded in the main.js. If I comment it out, the sliders stop working. However, if I comment it out, the calendar works perfectly.

Anyone have any recommendations or ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

[timohubois]

Currently I don't know the details of the previous discussion, but off the cuff you can try to use only the native wordpress jquery as did here: feat(jQuery): use wp jquery

I hope this helps.

[munts]

That worked perfectly. Thank you.